Roger Martin Quotes

. . . escape is easier than change.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.